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Art in Philadelphia, PA.

Kay Healy

Kay Healy, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Galleries at Moore

How does it feel to be showing your artwork in the Galleries at Moore? “Oh, it’s wonderful! There’s a lot of really good work here right now, so, it’s exciting to be in such a professional space. I was laughing because on Monday I had four people all helping me hang. I’m used to, you know, doing it all by myself.” Oh, yeah, DoN knows. “I’ve been dragging my boyfriend around, making him hold things for me. It’s really nice to have someone else with good opinions about how it should be hung. I’m hoping to really get my work out there and be in more exhibitions and that I’ll be able to spend more time making work instead of applying for exhibitions.” Holla!

DoN reminded Kay Healy about seeing her work at Art in City Hall. “This is great because it was in the Window on Broad at UArts and from that I was able to get into the Dysfunctional Furniture show at City Hall. And Leah Douglas from the Philadelphia International Airport saw it and she said, ‘Can I do a studio visit?’, I said, ‘Yeah!’, like, Oh Great!, real artists get studio visits! So, she dropped by and said, ‘OK, well, I have a forty foot case that I would like you to do for Summer 2012.’ That was about a year ago, so now, that’s my major project doing a forty foot version of this featuring a bathroom, a kitchen, dining room and a living room.”

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, presents an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows. A highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate, these six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region: Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Introduction 2012

February 1 February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore

Side Arts- POST 2011

Introduction 2011

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Heechan Kim

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Heechan Kim, Introduction 2012 Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Galleries at Moore.

Amie Potsic, Director of Career Development of Center for Emerging Visual Artists talked with DoN about the 2012 Fellows introduced at the The Galleries at Moore at a V.I.P cocktail reception 2/1/2012, “This is Heechan Kim, who is originally from Korea but lives in Brooklyn, his work is so elegant and beautiful and strong at the same time. He’s not here this evening because he’s at an artist residency on the West Coast. But, what is so striking about his work is that it’s so light and delicate yet so strong and powerful at the same time. I think the metal stitching on the thin strips of wood is, um, you can feel it. It’s palpable, it feels almost like skin being stitched in a really interesting way. Yet, they’re also completely floating and sort of weightless at the same time. I just think they’re beautiful.”

DoN agree’s with Amie, the bent wood has so many memes attached that the pieces literally sing little stories about tennis, weaving baskets or squeezing shut a suitcase with all your might.

Introduction 2012

February 1 February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore

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Al Gury

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Al Gury, Long Evening, oil, F.A.N. Gallery, Old City, Philadelphia. Al Gury: New Paintings, February First Friday.

Al Gury, F.A.N. Gallery

Al Gury, Pennsylvania Hills II, oil, F.A.N. Gallery

Al Gury, F.A.N. Gallery

DoN heard through the Art Educators of South Jersey that Al Gury was teaching a painting workshop for teachers and asked the master about the upcoming seminar. “That is for educators in the South Jersey School systems and I will be there presenting a workshop on color, the history of color, how to use color, for educators. That will hopefully help them not only with their work but they can use it in the classroom as well.” Just South Jersey teachers? “The advertising goes all over but the focus is lower half of NJ public school teachers.”

DoN gets starstruck around Al Gury, he’s a really cool guy, very approachable, but, the show at F.A.N. Gallery feels like an historical moment. The art show is a big collection of impressionist landscapes by a painting master. DoN overheard collectors boasting to each other how many Al Gury‘s they own and DoN could tell they were really, truly happy with themselves. Another conversation eves-dropped on was students comparing the juicy brushwork and scratched away paint in the luminous canvasses, trying out the art terms and lingo PAFA is famous for teaching it’s students to speak. DoN racked his brain for a salient question to ask the painter who teaches painting teachers how to teach – Tell me about the sky holes in the paintings?

“Well, I look at many different times of day because I like to travel around and look at the landscape at different times of day; mornings, daytime, early dawn, evening, afternoon to see the different kind of atmospheric stages and color changes. And I particularly like the type of atmosphere where the silhouettes, the shapes and the colors all fit together, I enjoy that very much.”

F.A.N. Gallery

221 Arch Street
Philadelphia PA 19106

HOURS
Wednesday – Sunday (12pm – 6pm)

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Kyle Fisher

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Kyle Fisher at studio:christensen

Kyle Fisher at studio:christensen (detail)

Kyle Fisher at studio:christensen

The intersection of Delancey Place and 20th Street is arguably the best address in town. Down the block is the Rosenbach Museum and Library, up the street towards Rittenhouse Square are hip restaurants and at the center of it all is Jt Christensen‘s studio: christensen. The designer has transformed the storefront into a decorator’s delight, the window constantly changing with aspirational furniture, decor, objet and art. Jt Christensen makes a big deal out of art, the Kyle Fisher show of astounding wood panels transcribing nature into abstract art with extraordinary detail and level of craft mashed with a futuristic vibe of the design the artist extracts from the wood is just beautiful.

studio: christensen participates in the Center City Second Friday art crawl and has a Third Thursday fashion photography night, it’s so fun to watch from the street and see the photographers working with the models and a reminder of the natural sophistication of Philadelphia.

studio: christensen
333 south twentieth st
philadelphia pa 19103
Tuesday-Saturday 12-7
or by appointment
2673866036
jtdesigns2@mac.com

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